M1 Rail contract awarded

[professorscott]

This piques an important question, in my opinion...

Seeing as this is a streetcar, will it ride like a bus? Meaning, will it only stop when there are people waiting or someone requests a stop? Or will it stop at every stop regardless? This would very much factor into travel times.

The last time I saw the operating parameters, it only stops under three circumstances:
1. Somebody is waiting to board
2. Somebody has signaled to disembark
3. To avoid "jumping a timepoint" [[leaving a time-posted station before the scheduled time)

Incidentally, the Woodward BRT is certainly not going to stop southbound at New Center, empty the bus, and force anyone headed further down Woodward onto M1 Rail or DDOT. That would be inane. Woodward BRT will go all the way downtown, but likely not make as many stops as M1 Rail or a local bus. So people would only need to transfer if their destination is not one of the BRT stations and they don't want to walk a few blocks.